roader

[< (skid) road + -er]

Lumbering

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a donkey engine having a very long cable on a drum, used for skidding logs out of the bush.

Quotations

1919

[There were] Two . . . skidders, one yarder, one swing, one ground swing and one roader, and not very high ball.

1958

A small outfit consists of two or three donkey engines; one, a roader, and one or two yarders.